Australian comedians and the people they attract
Our comedy scene is young, but there’s plenty to celebrate – even if Aussie comics still have to go overseas before anyone here takes them seriously.
Our comedy scene is young, but there’s plenty to celebrate – even if Aussie comics still have to go overseas before anyone here takes them seriously.
And then I saw someone die really hard. This guy had five minutes. And then he did four minutes of just silence. Just nothing. And then while he’s going off on the audience, one guy in the front just leans back, and then in a moment of silence he just goes, ‘Enough.’
The economic situation for comedians in Australia was part of the reason why I left.
Particularly stuff around housing at the moment, it’s like everyone’s kind of feeling the pinch, so there are those things that are mostly universal.
This particular case is unusual: this woman who tried to take out multiple generations of people in such a specific and isolated way.